Back when the online journalism was simply trying to put the print edition online.
Dig the way the "early adopter" here uses a ROTARY PHONE to connect to the paper's modem; then he presses the handset into the acoustic coupler. "Takes about two and a half hours to receive the whole paper" the anchor says. Ah, yeah, that would be at 300-bps speed! And IT ONLY COSTS $5 A MINUTE!
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Thursday, January 29
When the News Was Young
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brock
on Thu 29 Jan 2009 11:29 PM EST
Friday, January 2
American Chronicle: La Plata, MO
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brock
on Fri 02 Jan 2009 04:06 AM EST
The images comprising this short audio/photo slideshow are of my father and his two brothers as they traveled back to their boyhood home, La Plata, Missouri. The year was 2005.
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